Instead of still using just wood, paint, barkcloth, or wickerwork, for instance, to create ritually important and spiritually compelling--even dangerous--objects, it is reasonable to hypothesize that some people turned to this exciting and quite revolutionary new medium of earth, fire, and water that came from some exotic, far off land.

Chthonia whose "own notion of divinity was a thoroughly intimate one" (36), Fay engaged her son Dudley in building a cow shape out of wickerwork and cowhide, providing it with locomotion by means of bevel-gears and ratchets, and making sure that its rear was free for the proper moment.

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